El Chapo Trial:: Chupeta, the man with two faces
Thursday, November 29, 2018 21:11
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Who is Chupeta?
Colombian drug trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, aka Chupeta, takes the witness stand as the third cooperative witness.
Colombian drug trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, aka Chupeta, takes the witness stand as the third cooperative witness.
Arguably he is best known for the plastic surgery. Oh yes, the surgeries. He has undergone four aesthetic operations that, after changing his nose, cheekbones, eye contour and chin, have made him unrecognizable, except for the fingerprints. He was left unrecognizable in a horrific way. What remains is a grotesque mass of flesh, where his handsome face once was.
I always wondered if the surgeon lived much longer after the surgery.
The 55 year old Chupeta was arrested in Brasil in 2007, at his home he shared with his body builder boyfriend, who was also arrested.
At the time of his arrest he was the most wanted drug trafficker in the world. Most wanted and second only to Osama bin Laden.
His rise to prominence in the drug world came after an early release of his Colombian 24 year prison sentence. He began as part of the Cali Cartel but he became part of, and leader of the Norte del Valle cartel.
Aside from trafficking, he was a brutal, violent, bloodthirsty, vindictive murderer.
He is accused of 15 murders in the U.S. and 300 worldwide. And children were not off limits. He once murdered a family of 35. Beginning with the matriarch. He dismembered all 35. It was the family of Colombian drug trafficker Víctor Patiño Fómeque, Chupeta thought he was ratting to authorities.
When he was arrested at his home, he had 160 cell phones and 60 million dollars, painstakingly hidden under wood and concrete.
DEA estimated his wealth at 1.8 Billion Dollars, he was extradited to the U.S. in 2008
This is the person who the jury is to believe his testimony.
Testimony of today
Face alteration
Chupeta testified about his plastic surgery: “I had changes to my face I altered the physical appearance of my face by changing my jawbone, my cheekbones, my eyes, my mouth, my ears, my nose.” Said he had 3-4 surgeries. Seems strange he would not remember if it was 3 or 4. Notice the new Michael Jackson cleft chin alteration.
Chupeta’s appearance is a head turner and not in a good way. His prominent cheek implants are massive, and his face looks unnaturally stretched. His now gray hair is slicked back, with no attempt to cover any of his face. He’s also wearing blue fabric gloves…why? No clue.
Killings
Although he is suspected of at least 300 killings, he admits between 1989 and 2007, he killed or ordered the killing of 150 people. In 2004 he killed someone personally, shooting his victim’s face.
Drugs
He says he worked with the Sinaloa cartel for 17-18 years, supplying “my cocaine” to El Chapo, El Mayo, the Beltran-Leyva brothers, among others.
He says he met Chapo in 1990, in Mexico City, inside a hotel lobby, they were there for a meeting, negotiations.
The deal was entered into. Chupeta would fly cocaine to airstrips in Mexico. Once the cocaine arrived, Chapo would then traffic it across the north border to Los Angeles. Chupeta would receive 60%. Chapo would keep 40% as border crossing fee.
Chupeta said that normally, he would pay 37% to Mexican trafficking partners. In this case of Chapo however, he presented a good sales pitch; “He said, ‘I’m a lot faster,’” , [tunnels] Chupeta recalled. “‘Try me and you’ll see”, “And your planes, cocaine and pilots will be secure.”
Prosecution argument is that Chapo agreed to give Colombian cocaine partners the upper hand in a 55%-to-45% split.
Chupeta said he happily agreed to Guzmán’s request for the purest drug product possible because he wanted “a reputation for me, for my cocaine being so good.”
Chupeta admitted to being surprised by how fast Chapo was in transferring the drug shipments. And at the “protection” from the level of corruption in Mexico. “seizures in Mexico were scarce”. “The transport was superfast, less than a week. The other Mexican Narcos took “a month or more”
Mexico’s federal police protected shipments, also receiving the cocaine loads and conducted the transfer. ”Their corruption arrangements were effective, they were good” “That was one of the first times the Mexican drug traffickers delivered my cocaine that quickly,” Ramirez said.
It was almost a 20 year business partnership in which 400,000 kilos of Chupeta’s cocaine was smuggled into the U.S. by Chapo. Giving the jurors a visual of the quantities being moved, the jurors were shown just 10 kilos of cocaine, which filled a massive dog food-sized sack.
Chupeta testifies that he bribed authorities in Colombia to destroy any criminal records naming him, while he was overseeing the Norte del Valle cartel.
Voice recognition was used to identify Chupeta. This because of his altered face they had to identify him to attain a search warrant.
Below is the transcript of Chupeta’s Plea hearing and his plea agreement-click on hyperlink to enlarge
CHUPETA Plea Agreement by Chivis Martinez on Scribd
Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/11/el-chapo-trial-chupeta-man-with-two.html
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